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Description: | This is a Mycenaean flask from Cyprus. Mycenaean is the name given to the heroic period of ancient Greek history in which the city state of Mycenae was the most influential. Mycenae was in the Peloponnese, the hand shaped part of Greece, but Mycenaean citadels were also found on mainland Greece. The Mycenaeans developed many new pottery shapes and styles.Many Mycenaean Greeks migrated to Cyprus as permanent settlers from around 3200 years ago, either bringing flasks like this with them, or using their skills to produce their pottery on Cyprus.
An aryballos flask which is a small two handled oil bottle, decorated with red concentric circles and lines on a cream ground. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Decorative arts Bathing Archaeology Hygiene Bronze age | Temporal: | Late Bronze Age | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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